Shelby Foote’s magnificently orchestrated novel anticipates much of the subject matter of his monumental Civil War trilogy, rendering the clash between North and South with a violence all the more
shocking for its intimacy. Love in a Dry Season describes an erotic and economic triangle, in which two wealthy and fantastically unhappy Mississippi families—the Barcrofts and the
Carrutherses—are joined by an open-faced fortune hunter from the North, a man whose ruthlessness is matched only by his inability to understand the people he tries to exploit and his fatal
incomprehension of the passions he so casually ignites. Combining a flawless sense of place with a Faulknerian command of the grotesque, Foote’s novel turns a small cotton town into a sexual
battleground as fatal as Vicksburg or Shiloh—and one where strategy is no match for instinct and tradition.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Shelby Foote ably fashions a drama as modern as today’s newspaper, as old as Mosaic law.” —New York Times
“A fascinating drama...the atmosphere is superbly managed; and on every score, this is a first-rate job of story-telling.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
“With impeccable detail, Foote delves into the moral decay of the American moneyed class. [Grover Gardner’s] performance lends an amused presence to Foote’s scenario. [Gardner] precisely captures Jeff and Amy’s pretense of virtue, the Major’s disdain for those he considers below him, and the fading values of the next and future generations.”
—AudioFile
“Shrewdly contrived and skillfully executed.” —Kirkus
Shelby Foote (1916–2005) was an American historian and novelist who came from a long line of Mississippians. After attending the University of North Carolina, he served in World War II as a
captain of field artillery in the European theater. He wrote six novels and was awarded three Guggenheim Fellowships in the twenty-year course of writing his monumental three-volume history, The
Civil War: A Narrative.
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